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Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…
Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptoms of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptomes of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]
London: printed for Dor. Newman, 1668
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and if they had been careful to have kept their Evidences clear and plain, O the comfort they might have had to have read them every morning: If the Pollution of sin recoil back again, no marvel the sense of guilt of sin upon thy Conscience recoil back again; if God have committed such a Jewel to thee as the Evidence of pardon of sin, and thou makest no better use of it, 'tis just with God to take it out of thy hands, and keep it in his own; and though he show mercy at last unto thee, yet thou mayst not know it while thou art in this world; 'tis a very hard thing to recover it again: those that have had the pardon of sin sealed unto them, have by their falling into sin afterwards, so darkened and lost their Evidences that they could never recover them again; as David, see how he cries out, Create in me a clean heart, and restore to me the joy of thy Salvation; David saw all was gone, and that there must be a new Creation and Restoration; Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; O the joy that once I had, and now have lost; O Lord that I may have it once again: David had a little sensual pleasure for a while, but he paid dear for it, he lost the joy of Gods Salvation: What think you, David would have given to have got it again? for ought we know, he never had it so fully as before: Those that have had some comfortable Evidence of pardoning grace, and afterwards through their negligence, looseness, and vanity, have lost it, may never come to enjoy the comfort of it again as formerly they did; and therefore when Peter had sinned against his Master; mark, when Christ came to Peter, says he, Lovest thou me? he answered, Lord thou knowest I love thee; Christ puts it to him again; Lovest thou me? he would not take his first answer, but puts it to him the second and third time, Lovest thou me? as if Christ had said to Peter, look to your self, it is not any present sudden work that can recover your Evidences again; you that have sinned and darkened your Evidences, had need to put this Question ⟨p. 122⟩to your own hearts again and again, to get it sure, that you love Christ, and that Christ loves you.
and if they had been careful to have kept their Evidences clear and plain, O the comfort they might have had to have read them every morning: If the Pollution of sin recoil back again, no marvel the sense of guilt of sin upon thy Conscience recoil back again; if God have committed such a Jewel to thee as the Evidence of pardon of sin, and thou makest no better use of it, 'tis just with God to take it out of thy hands, and keep it in his own; and though he shew mercy at last unto thee, yet thou may'st not know it while thou art in this world; 'tis a very hard thing to recover it again: those that have had the pardon of sin seal'd unto them, have by their falling into sin afterwards, so darkned and lost their Evidences that they could never recover them again; as David, see how he cries out, Create in me a clean heart, and restore to me the joy of thy Salvation; David saw all was gone, and that there must be a new Creation and Restoration; Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; O the joy that once I had, and now have lost; O Lord that I may have it once again: David had a little sensual pleasure for a while, but he paid dear for it, he lost the joy of Gods Salvation: What think you, David would have given to have got it again? for ought we know, he never had it so fully as before: Those that have had some comfortable Evidence of pardoning grace, and afterwards through their negligence, loosness, and vanity, have lost it, may never come to injoy the comfort of it again as formerly they did; and therefore when Peter had sinned against his Master; mark, when Christ came to Peter, says he, Lovest thou me? he answered, Lord thou knowest I love thee; Christ puts it to him again; Lovest thou me? he would not take his first answer, but puts it to him the second and third time, Lovest thou me? as if Christ had said to Peter, look to your self, it is not any present sudden work that can recover your Evidences again; you that have sinned and darkned your Evidences, had need to put this Question